Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something was wrong. The most Chris could bring himself to believe was that it was nothing much. He did the proper thing, according to his lights, in beating Anne nearly dead, then scotching the gossip and his doubts by forgiving her and himself in hearty stoker fashion. Feeling still somehow inadequate, he promised her that after the next trip he would get a job ashore, not leave her so much alone...
...your own home, even if you had two mortgages on it and could not pay the back taxes. Mrs. Hoe thought the niggardly pay she earned in a department store gave her the right to buy (on the installment plan) all sorts of luxury-conveniences. Their children thought that somehow there ought to be money enough to pay for their chosen careers: Dallas wanted to be a lawyer, Sythia a famed dancer, Darthula a rich man's wife. None of them would face the fact that they were living hopelessly beyond their income...
...works himself up into such a state that he takes a pistol to her. All this comes out of an unpublished novel by Wallace Smith and Erich von Stroheim who used to go around frightening virgins out of their wits on the silent screen. On the operetta stage it somehow fails to click. A possible explanation lies in the choice of Walter Slezak, whose big act is chubby artlessness, to play the part of the psychiatrist. Mr. Slezak was the amiable bumpkin in Music in the Air. And most spectators will find it hard to understand why such a handsome...
...heart still bleeds. . . . She will always be my dear, little girl. Somehow, in some way, this must work out for the ultimate good...
...gold piece," the burly Texan added. "I don't know what is ahead either but I know what is behind us. I know there's plenty of meat in the smokehouse and flour in the barrel and, whatever it is, we'll lick it somehow...